(Hebrew, dag On, the fish On) The idol of the Philistines; half woman and half fish (See Atergata ) "Dagon his name; sea-monster, upward man And downward fish; yet had his temple high Rear'd in Azotus dreaded through the coast Of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon, And Accaron and Gaza's frontier bounds " Milton: Paradise Lost, book i 402 Dagonet (Sir) In the romance La Mort d' Arthure he is called the fool of King Arthur, and was knighted by the king himself "I remember at Mile-End Green, when I lay at Clement's Inn, I was then Sir Dagonet in Arthur's show " - Henry IV , iii 2 (Justice Shallow) "Dagonet" is the pen-name of Mr G R Sims
The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish